Peakyblinders

[Ariel Badger]

Who saw the new BBC2 series on the street gangs of post WW1 Birmingham? I thought it was brilliant put I am biased because it is set in the area where I live and the streets named are only a couple of hundred yards from my house, also......
Peaky Blinders is fiction but the Blinders did exist, my grandfather's brother was a peaky and a barefist boxer. He was paid to throw a fight in Aston but took the win anyway, for this he got an axe planted in his skull but managed to walk a mile to the General Hospital in Corporation St where it was removed and a steel plate bolted to his head for the rest of his life. Punch Hunt, I never met you but you sound one hell of a hard bar steward.
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[Ariel Badger]

From the amount of replies it would seem that no one has seen it
Treat yourselves iplayer
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[Vincent]

I read about the Birmingham gangs of old. Not sure if it was the same time as the Peaky Blinders but, traditionally, gangs would travel to other villages around the Black Country to fight the local hardknocks The villages had gone when I lived there but some of the traditions carried on.
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[ThoughtContro...]

Fighting gangs were prominent plague in this part of Manchester in the late 19th Century.

Formation of lad's clubs and football clubs (one even ended up being called Man City) was seen as a way of combating the idle and violent youth of the day.
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[Vincent]

Good piece here:-

www.spaghettigazetti.com/2010/12/gangs-of-victorian-birmingham-revealed.html

Pics of the mugshots of the original peaky blinders has just been released.

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/Drewskovitch/Peakyblinders_zps8c3407cf.jpg
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[Ariel Badger]

I have the book Vincent, IMHO it is rather poor as it relies only on the archives of the press as a source of information when then there are still people like my Mother and until recently her older sister who had direct contact with the gangs and could have given the bare facts some flesh and a pulse.
Where did you pull those photos from?
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[Vincent]

It wasn't that book I was on about when mentioning the roaming gangs, the gangs I was talking about were around a long time before the Peaky blinders, might even have been pre industrial revolution era. The B'ham gangs were more criminals than anything else, the earlier gangs just fought for the craic. You've heard of bull-baiting? These mobs were into man-baiting
I'll have a look for the book over the weekend, see if I can find out more.
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[Clanger]

I recorded it, I will probably start watching it after I've recorded a few more episodes so I can watch more than one episode in a row. It's a thing I do.
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[Vincent]

[Ariel Badger]

Thanks mate as I said the action is set in Small Heath where I live, the pub that is central to the plot is The Garrison Tavern about a mile from my house. My house is a newish build but one side of my garden is a very old brick wall that was part of a back to back slum (one of the reasons I bought the house).
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[Ariel Badger]

[Ariel Badger]

This is the area where the program is set but the map is from 1864 not 1919. My road does not exist, it is in the field to the East of Muntz St (Muntz St is named after George Fredrick Muntz)
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[Tungtvann]

The TV show looks good and Cillian Murphy is a good actor. I'll check it out.

[Vincent]

^^
Do you remember Grays Motorcycles? I worked there for a bit and lived in a bedsit on Golden Hillock Road.
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[Vincent]

[Ariel Badger]

Yes I remember Grays, the shop went a long way back and held about 50 bikes if I remember correctly (mostly British with drip trays under the engines) I bought my first bike from them (a KTM Comet)
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[Vincent]

[The Black Baron]

Yes, I caught it on iplayer this evening.

Bit pissed so can't make a judgement on the acting and shoot, but it looked good and held my attention for an hour, which is something. Sam Neill was better than I was expecting.

Will series link. Two thumbs fresh.

[andyscooter]

watched it and the missus went to bed so must be good

she hates dark programs
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[Mondeo Man]

Wow, thugs.

Whoda thunk it?

These are SPECIAL thugs though, because they, um, well, they lived in the past!

Totally different to chav of today.

[Ariel Badger]

One could say the same about the Vikings, The Tudors or the Visigoths. Your point is?
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[ThoughtContro...]

[Mondeo Man]

[Vincent]

Ariel Badger; dug out a few books, I'll see if I can find the piece about the early Staffs gangs. Your welcome to borrow any if you like but you can probably find them cheap on the Big Bad Bay.

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/Drewskovitch/P9162526_zps1d926829.jpg

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/Drewskovitch/P9162527_zpsc062d0e8.jpg
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[Ariel Badger]

Thanks, I have bought most of those for my mother!
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